Royal Opera House, LondonLast Tuesday the Mariinsky Ballet's two-day run of Don Quixote opened with Denis and Anastasia Matvienko in the lead roles of Basil and Kitri. The production, based on Alexander Gorsky's 1900 Bolshoi version, is pure Hispanic hokum, an orgy of snapping fans, swirling capes and drilling castanets. Toreadors strut in jewelled bolero jackets; street dancers whirl and stamp; smouldering-eyed Gyps…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on August 6, 2011